The election in Lower Saxony and the chancellor's word of power in the nuclear power plant dispute bring the SPD some recovery in the RTL/ntv trend barometer. The party is back on par with the Greens, but still well behind the Union.
The SPD is currently experiencing a small high in the RTL and ntv trend barometer. The governing party gains one point to 20 percent, putting it back level with the Greens, who remain unchanged. The Social Democrats can thus free themselves from a trough: At the beginning of October, the party was still at 18 percent. However, the CDU and CSU are still well ahead of the other parties, even if the sister parties have to give up a point to 27 percent.
The AfD with 14, the FDP with 6 and the left with 4 percent remained unchanged compared to the previous week. According to figures from the opinion research institute Forsa, 9 percent would still choose the other parties. At 23 percent, the proportion of non-voters and undecided corresponds to the proportion of non-voters in the last federal election (23.4 percent).
There are also few changes when it comes to the question of Chancellor preference. If they could elect the Chancellor directly, 23 percent would choose the incumbent Chancellor Olaf Scholz from the SPD - he loses one point compared to the previous week. CDU leader Friedrich Merz and Economics Minister Robert Habeck from the Greens are tied at 19 percent - with Habeck gaining one point.
If Annalena Baerbock were to run for the Greens instead of Habeck, she would get 20 percent, which is a plus of one point. Merz would also remain unchanged at 20 percent. The approval for Scholz would also remain unchanged at 25 percent.
But not only the chancellor candidates are currently getting bad grades. The values are also low when it comes to the question of political competence. 13 percent of all eligible voters currently trust the Greens and the SPD most likely, 11 percent the Union parties political competence. With the FDP it is only 3 percent, with the other parties 5 percent. On the other hand, 55 percent do not currently trust any party to deal with the problems in Germany.
Economic expectations are hardly improving either. 10 percent of all Germans expect that the economic situation in Germany will improve in the coming years - that's one point more than a week ago. A further 74 percent expect their own situation to deteriorate. 13 percent believe that there will be no change, here the value has fallen by one point.
The mood is depressed above all by two topics: 78 percent consider energy and the energy crisis to be particularly important at the moment. In the case of the war in Ukraine, it is 65 percent. 16 percent still consider the corona pandemic to be important, 10 percent see the work of the federal government as an issue, and 7 percent see the issue of climate and the environment.
The data was collected by the market and opinion research institute Forsa on behalf of RTL Germany from October 25 to 31, 2022. Database: 2503 respondents. Statistical error tolerance: /- 2.5 percentage points.
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